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Robotics & UAVs

A surgeon's view of the catheter's journey

Catheter implanted into brain with robot shows promise for neurosurgery

A close-up of the gripper's filaments wrapping around an object

Nature inspires entangled filaments gripper

Robotics Plus unveils UGV for agriculture

Comment: Safe landing for drones is a huge technical challenge

The Engineer Survey: What makes a top employer?

Algorithms give four-legged robots speed and agility

Synaptic transistor mimics brain to make robots more intelligent

AlgaRay to collect and dispose of invasive sargassum

Aerial AM custom buildDrone with a delta-arm manipulator

Aerial-AM drones take cues from bees to 3D print structures

Jerome O’Connell, CEO and co-founder, Proveye

Farmers to get AI eye in the sky to monitor grassland

Developed by NTU Singapore and TTSH, MRBA is a wearable assistive robot that can detect and prevent a fall before it happens, reducing the user’s risk of sustaining injuries

Wearable robotic device detects and prevents falls

Anoop Rajappan, left, and Daniel Preston of Rice University set up an experiment with their fabric air pump. The lab developed its textile-based energy harvesting shoe able to power assistive devices for people with disabilities

Rice team’s extra limb powered by compressed air